Kelly Anderson

Kelly Anderson is a research social scientist in the Community Resilience Group of the Materials and Structural Systems Division of the Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She received her PhD in geographical sciences from the University of Maryland (College Park) in 2021 and her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Florida in economics in 2010. Anderson’s research interests include poverty, urbanization, and the effects of extreme weather on environmentally vulnerable and economically marginalized communities. She has worked on a range of topics related to the social impacts of extreme weather, including changes to education and healthcare access, viability of rural and urban livelihoods, and migration. Within the Hurricane Maria Program, Anderson has worked since May 2020 on a National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program project focused on the recovery of services provided by schools and hospitals and the role of these social institutions in the recovery of communities.